[ARC5] Surplus Disposal

[David Stinson]

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From: "gordon white" <gewhite at crosslink.net>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Surplus Disposal


> There was a lot of disposal of WW II surplus by bulldozing ...

This thread has re-awakened bad memories...
Uncle Stupid's disgusting, revolting waste didn't stop with WWII.
In 1996-99, the Clinton-oids decided that all of us in the defense 
industries
were war-mongering, racist homophobe baby killers.
I can tell you horror stories of wind-rows of office equipment, 
technical
equipment and construction equipment rotting in the desert
before being buried.
Of how we were forced to destroy all the irreplacable equipment
used in our work and to collect old, worthless garbage and
make it "look pretty" on the shelves so equally worthless congressmen
could come on a "dog and pony" show and be fooling into thinking
we could still do something that mattered.
Of highly-classified documents blowing about in the wind
from the ravaged archives.
Of  decades of documentation won at great taxpayer expense and
of continuing value, and literally thousands of technical manuals
buried in a landfill,.
Of 7-foot tall dumpsters LEVEL FULL of still in-the-bag Textronic
scope probes of every kind, bound for burial.
Of "SCRAP" bins 4 by 4 by six feet LEVEL FULL of cable connectors
and adaptors, of dumpsters packed with electronic parts so tightly 
that,
when emptied and the contents dozed into crater 10C,
there were still parts packed and jammed into every metal fold.
And I can tell you about thousands of dedicated, smart and
capable people sent packing to disperse into the gathering darkness,
of leaders and engineers with vast experiance and exceptional 
intelligence
forced to retire and the back-bencher, puppy-dog coffee-bringers
who were more politically compliant being placed in charge.
All these years later, it still sets my blood boiling and breaks my 
heart.
I'd rather have seen some poor kid in a techincal school in Cuba
get even a little of these parts and test gear .... well, you know.

You can tell people all this, but they don't want to hear it,
they won't believe you and they don't care.
If they cared, they might feel obligated to say or do something
about this kind of immoral, criminial behavior.
They are much to busy watching football to do that.

The most important thing I learned was:
Uncle Sam is NOT your friend.